Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-16


head, inHicting an ugly cut, from which it
was feared he would bleed 10 death be
fore a doctor could arrive.
STATE NOTES.
There is talk oil a seyen-column daily
Newspaper being started ut Huntington.
Seven cars of horses have been shipped
from Clarksburg i'll the last two weeks.
Four men in one neighborhood in Bar
bOur county, have left their wives and fled
the county.
Leroy, Jackson county, few days ago.
About fifteen acres were burned over.
Clarksburg is bidding high for the Con-
ference Seminary. 1t is reported that that
town will probably offer $40, 900 ard a
building site.
The Huntington Times says: The gas is
still issuing from the gas we'll, and when
lighted burns beautifully. Mr.. Prentice,
the principal stakeholder, is looked for
every day
1t is told about Clarksburg that young
man named Goodman purchased farm for
IS, 200, on which he paid $1,000, then
borrowed 81, 600 from Mrs. Basel, giving
her deed of trust on the farm, and skipped
out 81, 900 ahead
On Tuesday there will he a meeting in
Parkersburg of the Ohio River Road syndi-
cate, including the most prominent gentle
men connected with the road A number
Of matters Of interest and importance will
be considered by them.
Edmund Haislip, young man aged
about IL, fell under the wheels OF Il freight
train at BarbOursville while attemptin, to
board the train, Monday morning, and
mashed one of his legs so badly that it was
necessary to amputate it about three inches
below the knee.
An ordinance was proposed at the last
meeting of the Huntington City Council,
granting to J. l.. Caldwell the exclusive
right and privilege OF making, owning and
constructing street railway tracks on and
over the avenues and streets of and in the
city of Huntington for fifty years"
City Assessor Charles w. Phelps has Just
completed the census of this town, and
finds that the population is little over
5000, not enumerating the strangers here
at work on the bridge. This is an in
crease Of :, 600 since the census taken in
1850 BoOm!-I'Oiat Pleasant Register.
Four men named Mccoy have been in
dicted for murder in the first degree for
shooting DR.. w. T. NOrthup at Haverhill,
Ohio, putting iOrty-siX buckshOt and five
balls into his body. Northup was formerly
a resident OF Gilmer county, this State
The shooting was the result of malice.
The suit of Mrs. S. T.. Moore vs.. the
City of Huntington, for damages for phys
ical injuries sustained by the plaintiff in a
fall from defective culvert near the En-
sign Works. last November, was tried in
the Circuit Court Wednesday, and a YER
dict rendered i'll favor OF the plaintiff for
l,05O.
Tuesday last Mr.. f. w. Mcneil, of
MOOrctield, with the assistance OF his
hands, killed 10 rats, at his large barn at
MapletOn, in Il novel way, They turned
the channel of n small stream and flooded
the barn. The rats came out in every di-
TectiOn when the water went in. Then
the men waded in and slew them with
clubs.
There has been no little excitement
among the residents in the neighbOrhOOd
OF McCall'ry's shop, Morgan county, occa-
stoned by q ghost or ghostcSs which
makes its appearance nightly on the
porch Of said shop 1t is described rs
being big white object which moves
about very mysteriOnsly from place to
place and then suddenly disappears.
The trial of Jonn Newman, charged with
the killing OF Jacob Baxter, in Wetzel
county, is act for the 25th inst. 1t is un-
derstOOd that both the State and defense
expect to be ready Tor the trial at that date.
There is a large number of witnesses, and
rs the case has excited great deal of
interest, there will doubtless he large
crowd in attendance.
The stockholders of the Evansville,
Marion county, Manufacturing Company
will rebuild their wooden factory at IN
early day, the preliminary work TO be
commenced at once. The new building
will he of brick, and will have all modern
facilities for the prosecution of the bust
ness The reader will remember that this
factory was destroyed by fire early last
summer.
The citizens of Buffalo district Brooke
county, are unwilling Ia admit that the
search for oil is a failure, and some OF them
claim that the HaZelwOOd Oil Company,
which put down the test well on the Crouch
farm, is playing smart game. Notwith
standing the well is reported dry hole, it
is said the company has leased another
farm and is endeavOring to secure more
territory. This doesn't look IA though
they had abandoned the field for GOOD.